Conference Presentations
Keynote Speaker
Caroline Broadhead
Jewelry and Textile Designer/ Course Director for Jewelry, Central St. Martins, London, England
“To The Edge”
Program Speakers
Robert Baines
Artist/Professor and Coordinator of Gold and Silversmithing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
“Extremities of the Bogus and the Authentic and Goldsmith Spaces in Between”
Kristin Beeler
Artist/Assistant Professor and Head of the Metals Program at Long Beach City College, California
"Beauty and Other Monsters”
Kathleen Browne
Artist/ Professor of Crafts and Head of Jewelry /Metals/Enameling at Kent State University School of Art, Ohio
“Irresistible Impulse: The Maker and HyperPractice”
Gabriel Craig
Artist/Metalsmith, Houston, Texas
"Altruism, Activism, and the Moral Imperative in Craft”
Photo: Courtesy of Gabriel Craig
David Huycke
Artist/Silversmith/Belgium
“The Metamorphic Ornament: Re-thinking Granulation Research into the Metamorphosis of Granulation towards Sculptural Silverwork”
Lauren Kalman
Artist/Adjunct Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design and Northeastern University
"Pearls, Papules, Pain and Piercing”
Beverly Penn
Artist/Professor of Art and Design at Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
"Second Nature: Art as Primary Experience"
Cindi Strauss
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
"At the Crossroads of Trends and Traditions: Emerging American Jewelry Artists Today"
SETH PAPAC
Iris Chatelaine
Courtesy Sienna Gallery
